RQ09820 Business Analyst Senior

Responsibilities:

• Provides a comprehensive range of I&IT business analysis services for clients with diverse business and technological needs.
  
• Interacts with the business stakeholders and subject matter experts in order to understand their requirements through gathering documenting and analyzing business needs and requirements.
  
• Prepares and advises on business analysis policies processes best practices and standards to promote a comprehensive and consistent business analysis practice within the organization.
  

General Skills:

• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess clients business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined.
  
• Applies re-engineering concepts to promote business improvements through alternative and cost effective service delivery approaches Leads and conducts business analysis at varying levels of detail appropriate to the project and phases of project aligning with OPS Unified Project Management
  
• Methodology Enterprise Architecture and Gating Process and OPS Standard Systems Development
  
• Methodologies Develops strategies prepares business cases and cost-benefit analysis and conducts feasibility studies for business I&IT initiatives
  
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions interviews mockups etc.
  
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for assigned projects
  
• Monitors progress resolves problems and reports regularly to I&IT management and stakeholders
  
• Develops performance measures and traceability matrices for business analysis evaluation and conducts follow-up
  
• Experience developing strategies preparing business cases and cost-benefit analysis
  
• Experience conducting requirements gathering developing documentation including presentations and briefing notes and conducting stakeholder engagement
  
• Experience in the use of Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tools to document conceptual requirements and scope
  
• Awareness of emerging I&IT trends and technologies
  
• Excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills
  
• A team player with a track record for meeting deadline
  

Desirable Skills:

• Experience in the use of information retrieval packages
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Information Management principles concepts policies and practices
  
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions
  
• Experience with a wide range of methods tools and techniques for business analysis such as: business functional modelling business event modelling business process mapping
  
• Experience in structured object oriented and agile methodologies for user requirements
  
• Experience developing performance measures for business analysis evaluation and subsequent follow-up
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards
  

Requirements

Experience and Skill Set Requirements:

Must Haves:

• Leads and conducts business analysis in order to assess clients business problems/opportunities and documents the business requirements in such a way that I&IT solutions can be determined. These include use of UML in development of use cases activity/sequence/state diagrams for capturing business process flows workflows and documenting business and system functional requirements.
  
• Conducts business modeling; use case modeling; conceptual and logical data modeling; process and data flow modeling; use case surveys; business rules definition and non-functional requirements definitions for IT systems under implementation.
  
• Develops sound processes for requirements gathering including but not limited to JAD sessions interviews mockups etc.
  
• Has excellent analytical problem-solving and decision-making skills; verbal and written communication skills; interpersonal and negotiation skills.
  
• Team player who is tactful flexible and is aligned on Clients project vision and direction. Keeps Client Project Manager up to date on work activities risks and issues.
  
• Ability to translate business and data requirements into specifications sufficient for designing appropriate technology solutions including development of ETL requirement specifications enabling data sharing and data ingestion.
  
• Knowledge and understanding of Accessibility for Ontarians with Disability Act (AODA) and related regulations and standards.
  
• Experience with Agile methodologies.
  
• Facilitate product backlog grooming creation of Epics and user stories development; analysis and documentation of complex process flow and calculations; collaborating and support Client with prioritization of user stories.
  

Skill Set Requirements:

Desirable Skills/Experience:

• Detailed business analysis knowledge and hands-on experience related to soil management systems will be an asset.
  
• Meticulous self-driven and able to self-manage work with limited supervision.
  
• experience with developing and executing RDBMS SQL queries
  
• Experience with DevOPS and Waterfall methodologies.
  
• Develop future state lean process including change management.
  
• Experience managing requirement risks.
  
• Experience with IT software tools such as Microsoft Visio Microsoft PowerPoint Figma JIRA Microsoft Office (Teams Outlook Word Excel).